01179cam a2200253 4500 165897012 TxAuBib 20090720120000.0 090623s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781439128244 1439128243 (OCoLC)731323908 TxAuBib Burke, James Lee, 1936- Rain Gods: A Novel / By James Lee Burke. 2009 Hardcover Edition. New York, New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009. 434. When Hackberry Holland became sheriff of a tiny Texas town near the Mexican border, he'd hoped to leave certain things behind: his checkered reputation, his haunted dreams, and his obsessive memories of the good life with his late wife, Rie. But the discovery of the bodies of nine illegal aliens, machine-gunned to death and buried in a shallow grave behind a church, soon makes it clear that he won't escape so easily. 20090717. Sheriffs - Texas - Fiction. Mass Murder Investigation - Fiction. TXBAY